The report should make the next revision obvious.

The selected journal remains credible, but methods reporting should be clarified before the manuscript enters editorial review.

Eligibility criteria and the analytic approach are present but not yet explicit enough for a reader to follow without interpretation.

When the cohort logic and statistical framework are hard to reconstruct, an editor or reviewer may pause before considering the manuscript's central result.

State the eligibility criteria, prespecified outcome, and core statistical method where a reader expects to find them. Then recheck the target journal's submission requirements.